Kindle Notes & Highlights
Caspi concludes that Maimonides’ perplexed reader is like a man who has two wives, the Torah and his own intelligence.
The Guide helps the perplexed man understand that the two senses can be grasped simultaneously, without having to choose one over the other.18
Maimonides is at the root of Kant’s notions of ethics and morality. This does not mean that Kant sides uncritically with either thinker.
Spinoza saw moral rules as relative to time and place.
David Yellin and Israel Abrahams, Maimonides (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1903), 217.
Edward Hoffman, The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage (Boston: Trumpeter Books, 2008),
Solomon Zeitlin, Maimonides: A Biography, 2nd ed. (New York: Bloch, 1955),
Herbert A. Davidson, Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005),
Ella Shohat argues that in the twentieth century, “In the Arab world, ‘the Jew’ became out of bounds, while in the Jewish state, ‘the Arab’ became out of bounds; hence, the ‘Arab-Jew,’ or the ‘Jewish-Arab,’ inevitably came to seem an ontological impossibility,” but that the lost dialogue of cultures could be recaptured if we went “beyond the fait accompli of the violent ruptures, within a reconceived decolonizing framework of mutually constituted Jewishness and Arabness”:
Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Makkari, The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, trans. Pascual de Gayangos, 2 vols. (London: Routledge Curzon, 2002),
Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen, in Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis and Leadership, translations and notes by Abraham Halkin, discussions by David Hartman (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985), 15.
Isadore Twersky, Introduction to the Code of Maimonides [Mishneh Torah] (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982),
Ibn Abi Usaybi’a quoted in Herbert A. Davidson, Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005),
Jonathan Phillips, The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (New
Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),
Abraham J. Heschel, Maimonides: The Life and Times of the Great Medieval Jewish Thinker
Ian Richard Netton, Al-Farabi and His School (London: Routledge, London, 1992),
Menahem Ben-Sasson, “The Maimonidean Dynasty,” in Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence, ed. Jay M. Harris (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007),
Maimonides, “Ma’amar Hayichud or Treatise on the Unity of God,” in The Existence and Unity of God: Three Treatises Attributed to Moses Maimonides, trans. Fred Rosner (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1990),
